On Monday, the Met kicks off its 132nd season with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Mariusz Trelinski, with Sir Simon Rattle leading a premiere cast of Nina Stemme, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stuart Skelton, Evgeny Nikitin and René Pape (not pictured). Read more »

The little OPERA theatre of ny, in collaboration with New Vintage Baroque, presents the New York City premiere of Piramo e Tisbe by Johann Adolf Hasse, a pivotal opera composer of the 18th century celebrated for his sweet and tender melodies. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. Performances Thursday – Sunday, March 22nd – 25th, 2018. Read more »

Yesterday we pondered two videos of Tristan und Isolde from the 20th century. Now let us move on to a performance that is definitively of the 21st. Patrice Chéreau, the humanist in provocateur’s clothing, returned to Wagner in 2007 at La Scala with Daniel Barenboim and Waltraud Meier. The three had first collaborated, memorably, on Berg’s Wozzeck more than a decade earlier. Read more »